A lot can happen in a month.

I packed up my apartment in Seattle, WA ...


and moved home to Long Island, NY.


The same week I started a new job at my former school - the Waldorf School of Garden City - and attended (and helped coordinate) an event at Camp Glen Brook, the school's extension campus in Marlborough, New Hampshire.

The following weekend, my friends and I attended our college class's 5th year reunion in Saratoga Springs, NY.


And most recently, I attended a baptism with some other friends in Middleway, West Virginia.

But last night, my 2006-fun-filled-free-summer-in New York 'unofficially' began with a walk along the 28th Annual Museum Mile Festival. Three hours is not enough time to visit all 9 museums along Fifth Avenue. (You'd have to move at the speed of light to see all 9 museums in 3 hours.) Still, that didn't keep my friends and I from spending a little over an hour each at the National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts and The Jewish Museum with just enough time to see the lobby of El Museo del Barrio (one I'd like to visit in the not-too-distant future). The 23 car-free blocks along 5th Avenue between 82nd & 105th streets were great! With street chalk in hand, I tagged "PEDESTRIANS RULE!" somewhere between 101st and 102nd streets.

Afterwards, our 7 person party patiently waited for dinner at One Fish Two Fish. Unfortunately, the restaurant had no ice cream!